Champa, Paula The Afterlife of Emerson Tang ISBN 13: 9780547792781

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A beloved car becomes a piece of us—a way back into our histories or forward into our destinies. For Emerson Tang, the only son of a prominent New England family, that car is a 1954 Beacon. A collector—of art and experience—Emerson keeps his prized possession safely stored away. But when his health begins to fail, his archivist and caretaker is approached by a secretive French painter determined to buy the Beacon at any cost. They discover that the Beacon has been compromised and that its importance reaches far beyond Emerson’s own history.

Soon they run into another who shares their obsession: the heir to the ruined Beacon Motor Company, who is determined to restore his grandfather’s legacy. These four become unlikely adventurers, united in their aim to reunite the Beacon’s original body and engine, pitted against one another in their quest to claim it. Each new clue takes one closer to triumph, but also takes these characters, each grieving a deep loss, toward finding missing pieces of their own lives.

A fast-paced ride through the twentieth century—to modernism, fascism, and industrialism, to Manhattan, a German zeppelin, a famed concours in Pebble Beach, and a road race in Italy—The Afterlife of Emerson Tang takes us deep into our complicated automotive romance. A novel of strangers connected across time, through a car that is so much more than a car, it asks us what should be preserved, what memories to trust, and whether or not some of the legacies we hold most dear—including that grand contraption, the automobile—can be made new again.

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A driving, panoramic novel of four strangers connected through their quest to reunite the body and engine of a vintage automobile

When I was young, I was fascinated by the power and the beauty of those machines. Also by the filth—the grease and noise . . . What do you see of a speeding car? What do you feel driving it? Speed is the only thing that exists then. But it doesn’t exist. I wanted it to exist. To remain in existence.
[Jonathon Keats blurb TK - due to arrive 12/17]
About the Author:
Paula Champa writes on design and the arts and has contributed to magazines including Surface, Intersection, American Artist, Print, and I.D. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, she was educated at Boston College and the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her short fiction has appeared in literary journals and in the anthology The Way We Work.

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  • PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 0547792786
  • ISBN 13 9780547792781
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages336
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